Facebook is tweaking its privacy settings to make it easier for newbies to share their posts privately.

The social network, with over 1.2 billion members, says new sign-ups get confused and end up posting their initial status updates publicly, which is the default setting until you go in and change it.

That’s about to change, with new settings that are defaulted to sharing privately with your Facebook friends.

New Facebook members “sometimes feel like their information is more public than they want,” says Facebook product manager Mike Nowak. “We’ve listened and adjusted.” Read more…